Literacy:
Our essential question this week was "How can you use what you know to help others?" We all have unique talents and we can use them to help others. Our skills and talents also make us feel good about ourselves. The texts we read this week included "Dancing LaRaspa", "The Impossible Pet Show", "The Talented Clementine", and "Clementine and the Family Meeting". We worked on the comprehension strategy: ask and answer questions, the comprehension skill: point of view, the genre: realistic fiction, and the vocabulary strategy: prefixes. Our grammar lessons helped us practice contractions with the word "not", and our spelling lessons taught us different ways to change singular words to plural words.
Our essential question this week was "How can you use what you know to help others?" We all have unique talents and we can use them to help others. Our skills and talents also make us feel good about ourselves. The texts we read this week included "Dancing LaRaspa", "The Impossible Pet Show", "The Talented Clementine", and "Clementine and the Family Meeting". We worked on the comprehension strategy: ask and answer questions, the comprehension skill: point of view, the genre: realistic fiction, and the vocabulary strategy: prefixes. Our grammar lessons helped us practice contractions with the word "not", and our spelling lessons taught us different ways to change singular words to plural words.
Math:
This week we reviewed square-number facts and multiplication and division patterns. We took a close look at our multiplication/division facts table to determine the facts we already know, and those we still need to learn. Students who have been faithfully practicing their facts have mastered most of them and are ready to learn larger multiplication and division problems. If your child has not mastered his/her basic facts, I encourage him/her to work on Math Facts in a Flash or another multiplication website posted on my Google Classroom math page. We also learned how to use our knowledge of multiplication and division facts to complete fact puzzles, and learned and played a game called "Multiplication Bingo".
This week we reviewed square-number facts and multiplication and division patterns. We took a close look at our multiplication/division facts table to determine the facts we already know, and those we still need to learn. Students who have been faithfully practicing their facts have mastered most of them and are ready to learn larger multiplication and division problems. If your child has not mastered his/her basic facts, I encourage him/her to work on Math Facts in a Flash or another multiplication website posted on my Google Classroom math page. We also learned how to use our knowledge of multiplication and division facts to complete fact puzzles, and learned and played a game called "Multiplication Bingo".
Social:
We spent time reading stories and watching a couple short videos to learn more about the Chinese New Year. We worked in our packets to practice writing numbers in Chinese, solve math problems to graph points on a Chinese Dragon picture, and solved a Chinese New Year Word Jumble. We also made dragon hand puppets with streamers to move to a dragon dance tune.
We spent time reading stories and watching a couple short videos to learn more about the Chinese New Year. We worked in our packets to practice writing numbers in Chinese, solve math problems to graph points on a Chinese Dragon picture, and solved a Chinese New Year Word Jumble. We also made dragon hand puppets with streamers to move to a dragon dance tune.
Future World Changer:
Brynn Beuning was featured as our "Future World Changer" this week. A person from history she would like to meet is Neil Armstrong because he was the first man to walk on the moon. In Social Studies, Brynn would like to learn about people from other countries as well as things that are happening in our country. She would like to visit Australia to see the animals there. Brynn likes to hunt, fish, ride horse, go to the beach, and do things outside. Her favorite color is light blue, favorite food is pasta, favorite animal is a horse, favorite subject is reading, favorite holiday is Christmas, and her favorite season is fall. If she could choose a super power, she would choose teleportation. Brynn would like to be a gymnastics teacher when she grows up. She told us about her family and answered questions from her classmates. Brynn is sure to be a "Future World Changer"!
Brynn Beuning was featured as our "Future World Changer" this week. A person from history she would like to meet is Neil Armstrong because he was the first man to walk on the moon. In Social Studies, Brynn would like to learn about people from other countries as well as things that are happening in our country. She would like to visit Australia to see the animals there. Brynn likes to hunt, fish, ride horse, go to the beach, and do things outside. Her favorite color is light blue, favorite food is pasta, favorite animal is a horse, favorite subject is reading, favorite holiday is Christmas, and her favorite season is fall. If she could choose a super power, she would choose teleportation. Brynn would like to be a gymnastics teacher when she grows up. She told us about her family and answered questions from her classmates. Brynn is sure to be a "Future World Changer"!